Chapter 75: Righteousness 5K, including Enigmatic Mysterious Xiān +5

  Zheng Suxin listened to Sheng Siyan's words and instead smiled, shaking her head: "Really a child, always saying childish things." She lightly brushed off Sheng Siyan's words about her being "fishing for fame".

  At this time, Niu Datong's people had arrived at the Shengguo Gongfu and, after much difficulty, finally saw Madame Wang, the wife of the Duke of Shengguo.

  Wang heard about the matter in the market and was already somewhat angry.

  She had no prejudice against Zheng Suhui, but she couldn't stand Zheng Suhui's repeated tricks.

  But Wang was more knowledgeable than Sheng Siyan and more mature in human relationships.

  Sheng Siyan originally wanted to collude with Wangshi, using his own way to deal with him, and secretly let Zheng Suxin drink the dirty water she had splashed on her.

  But Wang understood that if she took the lead in this matter, they would really have a falling out with Zheng Suhuan, and also with the Wu Guogong Fu and Zheng Guogong Fu families.

  They had just returned to the capital and did not have the strength to confront the two major national dukes.

  Or rather, they didn't have to sacrifice their long-standing relationships with the Wu and Zheng families just for the sake of a few greedy shopkeepers' families.

  She got up and walked a few steps in the hall, saying to the visitor: "Thank you for sending us a message. My daughter is just an impatient person, don't mind the young master." She also said: "Let's do this, I'll send my senior maid with you to tear it open."

  That person hastily agreed and went out to wait.

  "Go and tell Big Sister that Zheng Da Niang has helped us resolve our worries, we haven't even had time to thank her yet. Tell her not to cause trouble for Zheng Da Niang. Zheng Da Niang will take care of the Zhao, Mao, and Jin families, over 300 people in total. Also, please thank Zheng Da Niang on my behalf and tell her that our deceased ancestor would also be grateful if he knew about this. Additionally, apologize to Zheng Da Niang for our Big Sister's impulsiveness and hot temper. If she said anything wrong, ask Zheng Da Niang to forgive us considering the long-standing relationship between our four families. Once everything is settled, I will personally go to the Wu residence to thank Zheng Da Niang in person." He also instructed her, "Be sure to convey my words exactly as I said them."

  This speech not only rounded off Sheng Siyan's lie, but also saved Zheng Suhui's face. It also comforted the families of those in charge and saved face in front of the people of the capital, it was indeed a clever saying that killed several birds with one stone.

  "Madam is truly a crystal-hearted and clever person, this speech is flawless, no one can pick out any mistakes. The eldest daughter still has much to learn!" As she spoke, she left the room and headed towards the second door.

  Jie Xiang followed Niu Da Peng's people to the Dong Shi market, where they saw Jin Jia's eldest daughter still crying about their family's hardships over the years. Sheng Si Yan stood beside her, a habitual faint smile on her face, seemingly unhurried and unworried. However, one of her hands was subconsciously fiddling with the purple gold clove-shaped earrings hanging from her right earlobe.

  Jie Xiang smiled and stepped forward to pay her respects to Zheng Su Huan, interrupting Jin Da Niang's words. She slowly and clearly repeated what Wang Shi had just taught her to say.

  Zheng Suxin's complexion slightly cleared up.

  Sheng Siyan saw that Wang Shi didn't come in person, but instead sent her senior maid, Ju Xiang. She felt a pang of disappointment and thought to herself, "Could it be that Mother doesn't approve of her methods, so she's unwilling to come?"

  But later, after hearing the words of Wang's family as told by Juxiang, Sheng Siyan suddenly realized. Suddenly he admired Wang even more. Look at this remark, it's simply going to kill Jin Daguang's long speech just now!

  Wang's words neither acknowledged that Sheng Siyan was telling the truth nor said she was lying, but the whole speech revolved around the meaning of what Sheng had just said, only more euphemistically. However, the tone was even deeper. It turned out to be a straightforward request for Zheng Suhuan to settle the family members of these three families.

  Zheng Suxin originally had her eyes on the three Jin sisters, thinking of buying them as helpers.

  Now that Wang has stirred things up like this, Zheng Suqin will have to spend at least ten times more money to settle these three families of over 300 people.

  Zheng Suxin felt a little heartache for the money that was about to be spent, and secretly thought that Wang Shi was really too formidable. No wonder she could raise such a clever daughter like Sheng Siyan. Her own daughter was good in every way, but as soon as she saw Sheng Siyan, she couldn't help but feel inferior, it was as if they were born to be arch-enemies...

  As soon as the words "arch-nemesis" came to mind, Zheng Suheng's eyes sank, and she looked up and down at Sheng Siyan. Seeing her round and chubby apple face and barrel-shaped figure, she finally felt relieved, smiled at Ju Xiang, and said: "Your wife is too polite. It's just a small effort, no need to mention it? Don't worry, I'll definitely take care of them properly."

  For some reason, Sheng Siyan heard a few words of gnashing teeth from Zheng Suhui's words, pursed his lips and smiled, and went forward to give Zheng Suhui a gift, saying: "Madam Zheng is indeed the hostess of the wealthy Wu family, generous and extravagant, throwing thousands of dollars, really our model!"

  They deliberately lifted the sedan chair higher and higher.

  Zheng Suxin is a person who attaches great importance to face, and she definitely won't be able to get off the stage without spending money.

  Niu Datong saw the situation and also hurriedly said to the official: "This official, these over 300 people, Zheng Dainai has already taken care of, quickly take the contract paper to settle accounts with Zheng Dainai!"

  The official smiled and asked Zheng Suhui: "Madam Zheng, are you really going to buy out the three families of Zhao, Mao, and Jin with over 300 people?"

  Zheng Suxin had no choice but to nod and smile: "Since the wife of Duke Sheng has spoken, how can I not obey?" He then ordered his steward to go through the formalities with the official.

  Sheng Siyan clapped her hands and laughed: "Today, everyone in Daxia will know that these people have all been bought by Zheng Dainai!"

  Wu Chanjuan saw this scene on the second floor, got so angry that she was fuming with rage, but was tightly held back by Zheng Suhui's two maids and couldn't rush downstairs impulsively.

  Downstairs in the empty space, Niu Xiaoye saw that these people had all been bought by Zheng Dainai, and it was a pity. She spread her hands and asked her big brother, "Then whose family do these people belong to? Is it Wu's or Sheng's?"

  That's hitting the nail on the head.

  Niu Datong smiled and tapped her head, saying: "What does this have to do with you? Zheng Dainai is a Bodhisattva with a kind heart, and she's also the gatekeeper of Old Master Sheng. This time, when we bought these people back, it was naturally to return them to the Sheng Guo Gong Fu. Right, Zheng Dainai?"

  Zheng Suxin smiled and ignored him, only saying to Juzi: "There are many people here with loose tongues, all sorts of things are being said. You should take your young lady back quickly. This isn't a place for young girls to come. Look at my daughter who followed me to watch the excitement, she's only staying on the second floor and hasn't come down."

  Sheng Siyan glanced up at the second floor, not seeing Wu Yujuan being tightly pulled by two maids. She smiled and said: "Miss Wu was born with double pupils, a noble and precious person, not someone we can compare to."

  Zheng Suxin couldn't help but take another look at her, and said seriously: "Our families have known each other for generations. I'll just say one more thing. Have you seen me say anything to anyone else?" As she spoke, she turned around and led the people upstairs.

  Sheng Siyan lowered her head and curved the corners of her lips.

  Juxiang came over and said to her: "Big girl, Madam is calling you back."

  Sheng Siyan had no choice but to say to Niu Xiaoye: "Then I'll leave, are you coming or not?"

  Niu Xiaoye shook her head, "Big brother said I was going to buy a concubine for him, but I haven't taken a liking to anyone yet."

  "Well, I'll go first then." Sheng Siyan didn't want to stay here any longer either. She had done what she needed to do, and Wang Shi was prepared, so Zheng Dainai probably wouldn't dare play tricks again.

  Sheng Siyan bid farewell to the Niu family and followed Ju Xiang back to the Sheng Guo Gong Fu.

  As soon as she returned home, she rushed into Wang's room and chattered with her about the things in the market.

  Wang listened carefully and patted Sheng Siyan's head, saying: "You're a good kid. You also have quick wit, it's just that you're still a bit inexperienced."

  Sheng Siyan hugged Wang Shi and coaxed her into his arms, saying: "Mother, I'm in a hurry. Besides, that Zheng Dainai is too much...". As he spoke, he raised his head again to look at Wang Shi, worriedly saying: "Those three families have all been bought over by Zheng Dainai, will it be disadvantageous to our family?"

  Wang smiled and said: "Unlucky? They've all been driven out. How can it be unlucky for our family? - It would be unlucky if they were still at the Tianxia Pharmacy."

  "But those three shopkeepers understood the Tianxia Pharmacy so thoroughly, and now they've all been taken away by Zheng Dainai. Whatever secrets the shop had, wouldn't they have been completely exposed to them?" Sheng Siyan thought of the words "trade secret" and couldn't help but feel anxious.

  Wang couldn't help but burst out laughing and patted his back, saying: "You're really worrying for nothing. Do you think there's anything that's happened in those sixteen years at the shop that Zheng Dàniáng doesn't know about?"

  Sheng Siyan thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. Since the Sheng family's Shen Nong Fu was annihilated sixteen years ago, this Tian Xia Yao Fang had been under Zheng Dà Niáng's control, what secrets could there be that she didn't know?

  "Sister, you're really something. Just a few words and you've made Zheng's wife lose face so badly..." Sheng Siyan said with glee.

  "Seriously injured? Is Zheng's grandmother hurt?" Wang was shocked and hastily pulled Sheng Siyan to ask.

  Sheng Siyan hastily shook her head and said: "It's not really bleeding, I mean, she'll have to spend a lot more silver to settle down these three families!"

  "Ah." Wang's heart was at ease, and he said calmly: "That's it. Do you think being a good person is that easy? The hearts of Bodhisattvas are made of silver..."

  Sheng Siyan covered her mouth and smiled secretly, and returned to her own Wu Mei Xuan in high spirits.

  "First young lady, second young lady sent someone over to ask several times today, asking when the first young lady will return." Her senior maid, Mu Jin, came over to help Sheng Siyan change her clothes, saying as she did so.

  Sheng Siyan stretched her waist and said, "I'm exhausted today, I don't have the energy to go see her. Have someone send a plate of lucky tangerines over to her instead. Just say I'm tired and went to sleep first." As she spoke, she crawled onto the bed and lay down, and before Mu Ge had even finished lowering the curtains, Sheng Siyan was already fast asleep.

  Mugwort gave Sheng Siyan a quilt and a curtain, and walked out quietly.

  Haitang followed Sheng Siyan out today and saw a big excitement in the people's market in Dongshi, happily telling Mugui about it.

  Muxi was also a maid who had fallen on hard times and was sold together with the young lady of the house. She wasn't considered pretty, but she was honest and diligent, and skilled at needlework. After several changes in circumstances, she was finally bought by Wangshi and gradually established herself in the Shengguo Gongfu.

  That person is on the high platform, she has also stood there before. She can still be a maid, but the young lady she served in those years was eventually sold into a brothel...

  Haitang is different from Mugun. Haitang was brought into the Wang family together with her whole family, and her parents and brothers all work in the Shengguo Gongfu, which is easier than fending for themselves outside. Like Mugun, she is full of gratitude towards Wangshi and extremely fond of Sheng Siyan.

  "What was your main family back then?" Haitang asked secretly. The Haitang family used to be the child of another noble family, but that family did something wrong and the whole family, including the master and his wife, were sold off.

  Mu Ge sighed and said faintly, "Since Your Majesty suddenly fell ill, and then the second prince left in anger to become a monk, for these sixteen years, I don't know how many powerful families have been ruined. Families like the Four Great Houses, all these years they've only been able to survive by tucking their tails between their legs. What can you do about it now that you know?"

  Haitang nodded in agreement, saying: "This is indeed a true statement. As servants, we serve people wherever we go, but those young ladies are even more pitiful. That eldest daughter of the Jin family today, she's truly beautiful. Fortunately, Zheng Dainai bought her, otherwise...". She clicked her tongue twice and stopped speaking.

  Sheng Siyan lay in the house for a while, originally intending to rest her mind, but the conversation between Mu Jin and Hai Tang outside made her toss and turn, unable to sleep.

  She stared at the green silk embroidered with gold on the canopy, thinking about what she saw in the slave market today. She also felt a little sigh. However, she still didn't sympathize with those people. The luxurious clothes and food of those people were originally dug from the walls of their own family's prosperity. She wouldn't be so holy as to sympathize with those greedy "mice".

  She has sympathy, it would be better to use it on those honest and kind-hearted people, such as. She remembered that Wang Erge said before he left a few days ago that this winter will be very cold, reminding Wang Shi and Sheng Qiye to prepare more medicine.

  Why prepare medicine when it's cold?

  Sheng Siyan couldn't think it through and couldn't sleep either. She got out of bed, pushed open the curtains, walked to the front of the multi-treasured pavilion on the east wall, and took down the big Ah Fu that Wang Erge had given her to play with.

  ……

  Wang went personally to Wu Guogong's mansion and thanked Zheng Dainai in front of Old Master Wu for helping the Sheng Guogong Mansion out of a big trouble.

  Old Mr. Wu played with two iron stone walnuts in his hand, smiling and saying: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Since they are the ones who helped the Sheng family buy them, let's hurry up and send them back to them."

  Mr. Wang refused, saying: "We are already grateful for Mrs. Zheng's help in mediating for us. How can we let you go to so much trouble again? You mustn't make us lose face by going out of our way." In the end, they did not accept those three families.

  After Wang left, Old Wu collected his smile and said to Zheng Dainai: "These three people are not good at character, greedy, and difficult to entangle. You buy them down for Sheng Lao Yezi to make a good relationship. But our family can't keep these ungrateful and disloyal servants. Send them all away."

  "Ah, it's because the daughter-in-law is too soft-hearted," said Zheng Da Nainai hastily. "The old master is right, the daughter-in-law should send them away immediately." She then went to instruct someone to bring out the contracts of these people and handed them over to the steward, saying: "As soon as Madame Sheng arrives, the old master will say that we don't need these people at home. You can take them to the pawnshop for resale."

  The matter was settled, and with the deed of sale in hand, they called out all the people according to the deed, and sent them away to be sold at the pawnshop.

  The three sisters of the Jin family originally thought that the Wu family was their destination, but they didn't expect there to be another layer.

  "The steward said to them: 'Don't blame our mistress. If you must blame someone, blame the wife of Duke Sheng who came to visit today and spoke with the old master, causing our mistress to have a big headache and not daring to take you in.' With that, he pushed them onto the carriage and sent them off to the pawnshop."

  Zheng Suxin turned her hand over and actually earned back the silver she had spent on these people, with some to spare. She told Wu Yujuan about this matter in detail.

  Wu Chanjuan was overjoyed and clapped her hands, laughing: "When I have the chance, I'll definitely tell Sheng Dagu!"

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, after a few days, it was the birthday of the mother of a certain Shangshu, and many guests were invited to come and pay their respects.

  Sheng Siyan and Wu Chanjuan met at someone's home.

  Wu Chanjuan deliberately told the Shangshu's daughter about this matter. The Shangshu's daughter burst out laughing and said, "Good people have good rewards. Zheng Dainai is a Bodhisattva with a kind heart, even bad things will turn into good things." She also talked to other girls about Sheng Siyan's gossip, "Some people's minds are really wicked. Clearly knowing that the daughters of the four major families cannot be married to the royal family, she still deliberately let Wu Erguan and Xiao Wangye sit together..."

  Sheng Siyan felt secretly annoyed after hearing this. She thought that Wu Zhuangjuan was the one who had wronged her first, so why did these people choose to forget it selectively?

  Niu Xiaoye couldn't take it anymore and loudly spoke out what was on Sheng Siyan's mind, "You're all too much! Since you all know that the girls from the four major families can't marry into the royal family, then why did Wu Niang insist on having Siyan sit with Little Prince Wang at the banquet? It's clear that Wu Niang was in the wrong first! You're really good at splashing dirty water! ——Siyan, let's go, don't talk to them anymore!" As she spoke, she pulled Sheng Siyán's hand and started walking out.

  Sheng Siyan felt somewhat embarrassed, but more grateful.

  At this time, only someone like Niu Xiaoye can speak up for her.

  The room was silent. The girls looked at each other, not knowing which side to stand on.

  The Wu family is the god of wealth, and although the Sheng family's population is sparse, Sheng Qiye's medical skills are divine, having fully inherited the true teachings of Old Master Sheng, and can indeed save lives...

  At this time, a pretty girl walked over, held Sheng Siyan's hand and smiled: "They are talking too much, wait for me to make them apologize. Although the four major families cannot be married to the royal family, but it is not said that they cannot sit together?" She shook her head at the girls next to Wu Yuanyuan, "You guys think too much. Siyan has just arrived in Beijing and grew up in the countryside since childhood, how would she know these things? Don't blame her."

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  The first update of 5,000 words. It is the fifth additional update sent to Enigmayanxi Mengzhuzhong for rewards. Thank you to Munan Zhi and Mozhuo Qing for yesterday's reward of fragrant sachets. Thank you to everyone who rewarded us with peace charms yesterday.